The Commander In Chief is a brash, new female solo artist who has spread her metallic roots all over the Western world. Her debut EP "Battle For The Mind" is gaining rave reviews (including the one on this site) both here and abroad. From her new home and base of operations in Monza, Italy, we've asked the CIC to answer a few questions about her work. Find out about the inspiration of her new songs, her version of the Sabbath classic "Paranoid", and what she really thought of Paganini.

"I really just wanted to be a songwriter at first and focus on that, I had no specific guitar hero when I started but later on I got into Ritchie Blackmore and Randy Rhoads…"